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Ian Huntley gets 40 years

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ~kaz~ wrote:
    If they have committed something as terriable as murder then yes.

    Is the pub brawl killer as deserving of punishment as Huntley?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It should be more than 40 years... by the time hes out he could just do the exact same thing again! You hear stories about this happening, why is HE any different.

    Bet the police etc would wish they kept him in prison then wouldn't they
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Naomi_UK wrote:
    It should be more than 40 years... by the time hes out he could just do the exact same thing again! You hear stories about this happening, why is HE any different.

    Bet the police etc would wish they kept him in prison then wouldn't they

    Who has ever come out of prison after a 40 year sentance and then murdered again?

    And, its unlikely he will get released, the judge said so, you're making it sound like come 40 years he'll be released, thats just the theoretical parole date.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    bongbudda wrote:
    Who has ever come out of prison after a 40 year sentance and then murdered again?

    And, its unlikely he will get released, the judge said so, you're making it sound like come 40 years he'll be released, thats just the theoretical parole date.


    at which he'd have to convinceparole people he's changed and no longer poses a threat
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    at which he'd have to convinceparole people he's changed and no longer poses a threat


    which is the difficult thing for the judge and the law, as no sexual intent was proven and the evidence only points to a split second decision rather than premeditated murder. One would assume that after 40 years he's be able to claim he's not a threat.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    He hasn't admited guilt either and thats normally a strong negative when parole is considered.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    bongbudda wrote:
    Who has ever come out of prison after a 40 year sentance and then murdered again


    Yeah, sure that within 40 years you'll be able to think long and hard about your past actions but you're still the same person.

    He killed 2 little girls who had their whole lifes to live... so he deserves to live the rest of his behind bars.

    Thats my opinion anyway.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Naomi_UK wrote:
    Yeah, sure that within 40 years you'll be able to think long and hard about your past actions but you're still the same person.

    You dont think he might feel guilty about his actions? That he might change at all during 40 years?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No, because it is easier for people to not think that Huntley is a human being with human emotions. It's easier to charicature him as a "monster" so they don't have to consider that he is a person, and that society creates killers. If he's a "monster" and not a person they can live their own little lives, and forget about him.

    I'll ask again. Take the woman who has been beaten by her husband for thirty years, and one day snaps and stabs him to death. Should she be kept inside for life? Should she be treated the same as Huntley?

    Huntley won't get out of prison alive, I think people forget how long 40 years actually is. And even if he does, he is not free to commit more murder, he will be released on license with the knowledge that if he commits any criminal offence at all he will be sent straight back into custody.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote:
    I'll ask again. Take the woman who has been beaten by her husband for thirty years, and one day snaps and stabs him to death. Should she be kept inside for life? Should she be treated the same as Huntley?.

    Couldn't she argue that down to Manslaughter?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the point is that Huntley has been demonised and too many people are kept in prison for too long, just because they have been used in some political game or have been painted as 'evil' by the News of the world.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Huntley, to be brutally honest, was unfortunate because he murdered the two girls in a slow news week. If he'd done it in October nobody would have cared a jot. If he'd murdered two ugly girls nobody would have cared, same if the girls had been poor or black.

    Bongbudda: she could argue it down to manslaughter, but not always.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote:
    If he'd murdered two ugly girls nobody would have cared, same if the girls had been poor or black.

    So true! In a week where A 'BUDDING MODEL' with blonde hair, is killed outside her house you can see the prejudice in the way that the murder of Rochelle Holness has received so much less coverage!

    mind you - I sometimes think that it is the over exposure of these kinds of murders that creates these visions of 'evil'. I think the press adn television should be told to butt out in these kinds of cases
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote:
    Huntley, to be brutally honest, was unfortunate because he murdered the two girls in a slow news week. If he'd done it in October nobody would have cared a jot. If he'd murdered two ugly girls nobody would have cared, same if the girls had been poor or black.

    On that note it is interesting to compare the coverage of the brutal murder and dismemberment of a black teenager in London with the murder of the white 'model'.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    your-babe wrote:
    Ok so emotions don't have a place in the law, but still they should be considered- (Coming from my background.)
    I don't believe so. The law is the law, end of.

    Its function is to keep people safe, not satisfy revenge.
    On that note it is interesting to compare the coverage of the brutal murder and dismemberment of a black teenager in London with the murder of the white 'model'.

    What about the murders of union workers by the coca cola company?

    A human life is a human life.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What about the murders of union workers by the coca cola company?

    A human life is a human life.

    They are worth even less because they are poor, coloured and from a different country were people die all the time.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    bongbudda wrote:
    They are worth even less because they are poor, coloured and from a different country were people die all the time.
    Ahh Ok.

    Yeah, only white middle class kids count.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ahh Ok.

    Yeah, only white middle class kids count.

    And if they are attractive, female and just on the verge of getting 100 A*'s at exams then all the better.
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